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It’s the end of a bloody, brutal, and bizarre era. After years of blowing minds (and occasionally heads) across Prime Video, The Boys has officially wrapped filming on its fifth and final season and emotions are running sky-high.
Erin Moriarty, who has played the beloved supe Annie January a.k.a. Starlight since season one, took to Instagram with a raw, unfiltered goodbye that left fans both weeping and howling.
“Honestly, fuck ‘don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened,’” Moriarty wrote. “The tears have begun. The posts are incoming. I said goodbye to most of my work family today and I’ll be ready to smile about it when I’m ready to smile about it. To my Boys fam: love you, cunts. forever.”
And just like that, the internet exploded.
Fans Mourn the End: “Starlight, You Will Always Be My Crush”
In a sea of tributes and fanfare, social media erupted in grief, gratitude, and of course, a few snarky send-offs.
“Oh Starlight you will always be my The Boys crush from day one,” one fan posted with a broken heart emoji.
“Wheeeww I’m not ready for this to end,” another wrote.
“And she really killed her role, too bad,” someone lamented.
But not everyone shared the same sentiment. One contrarian voice posted, “Thank god it’s coming to an end, Season 4 was dire,” reigniting the ever-divisive discourse around the show’s fourth installment.
Still, the overwhelming reaction was one of loss and love. One fan summed it up in five devastating words: “My family is ending noooooooooo.”
Kripke’s Final Word: “Thank You, I Love You All”
The series’ creator, Eric Kripke, confirmed the wrap on Tuesday with a nostalgic Instagram post from inside the now-iconic Seven meeting room.
“This is the last time I’ll ever be on this set. It’ll be torn down soon,” Kripke wrote. “It’s bittersweet, but my primary feeling is gratitude. We have the best cast, the best crew, the most fun story to write, and something that is impossible to predict: the right timing.”
The executive producer reflected on the rare alchemy that made The Boys such a phenomenon, before signing off with a message to his cast and fans alike.
“To #TheBoys family: thank you, I love you all. To the fans: thanks for watching, can’t wait for you to see the grand finale. That’s a wrap.”
His comments were quickly flooded by love from the show’s stars. Jack Quaid (Hughie Campbell) responded, “Love you dude. Thank you for literally everything.” Laz Alonso (Mother’s Milk) chimed in, “Couldn’t have been on this journey with anyone else. What a ride, Krip! I can finally say I experienced lightning in a bottle!” Moriarty added her own heartfelt “Love you. Thank you. x 1000.”
Jack Quaid Reflects: “This Show Has Done Everything For Me”
In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Jack Quaid shared just how deeply the show and the role of Hughie has impacted his life.
“It’s just getting more and more surreal that I’m going to have to start saying goodbye to Hughie Campbell,” he said. “It’s emotional. It’s bittersweet. This show has done everything for me.”
Quaid described the final days on set as deeply emotional, but said he felt pride in the work they’d done. “I think it’s a great finale, which is a hard thing to do in TV,” he added. “I’m happy that Eric Kripke got to make the ending he intended.”
A Show That Always Knew Its Ending
Kripke has long hinted that season five would be the end of the road. Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter in 2023, he confessed that five seasons felt “just right.”
“I don’t know why I like the number five so much,” he said. “It gives you enough time to get to know the characters. You can have your calm-before-the-storm moment, which is kind of what season four is for me.”
In the world of The Boys, “calm” still means exploding heads, Nazi clones, and moral rot baked into every supe’s smile. But the final season promises to be the climax Kripke has spent years building toward.
The End of The Boys Universe? Not Even Close
Although The Boys proper is ending, its legacy will be anything but over.
In 2023, the franchise expanded with Gen V, a Gen-Z-coded, blood-soaked spin-off set in a college for young supes. The series was a critical and streaming hit, proving there’s still plenty of juice in the Vought machine.
Now, Prime Video has announced Vought Rising, a gritty prequel centered around controversial supes Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles) and Stormfront (Aya Cash). The series promises to dive into the dark origin stories that shaped the current Vought empire and fans can expect the same blend of biting satire, political horror, and comic-book carnage.